Films about psychiatry

1991 film directed by Jonathan Demme

1975 film directed by Miloš Forman

1997 film by Gus Van Sant

1999 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan

Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, who co-wrote it with producer Debra Hill. It stars Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P. J. Soles, and Nancy Loomis. The film follows escaped mental patient Michael Myers, who was committed to a mental institution for murdering his teenage sister on Halloween in the fictional Illinois town of Haddonfield; 15 years later, he returns to Haddonfield, where he stalks teenage babysitter Laurie Strode and her friends while his psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis pursues him.

1999 film by James Mangold

2008 film by Clint Eastwood

2012 film directed by Stephen Chbosky

1980 film by Robert Redford

2011 film directed by Lars von Trier

1966 Swedish avant-garde psychological drama film by Ingmar Bergman

2013 film by Lars von Trier

1999 film by Harold Ramis

K-PAX is a 2001 American science fiction mystery film starring Kevin Spacey as a psychiatric patient who claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX and Jeff Bridges as the doctor who investigates his case. It also stars Alfre Woodard and Mary McCormack. It is directed by Iain Softley based on Gene Brewer's 1995 novel K-PAX.

2003 film directed by Peter Segal

Gothika is a 2003 American supernatural horror film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, written by Sebastian Gutierrez, co-produced by Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis, and starring Halle Berry with Robert Downey Jr., Penélope Cruz, Charles S. Dutton, John Carroll Lynch, and Bernard Hill. The film follows a psychiatrist who finds herself incarcerated in the penitentiary in which she works, accused of brutally murdering her husband.

1996 film by Lars von Trier

2002 film by Steven Soderbergh

1942 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper

2022 film directed by Parker Finn

2000 film by Robert Zemeckis

1991 film by Barbra Streisand

2008 film directed by Alexandre Aja

1997 film by Richard Donner

1965 comedy film directed by Clive Donner

2018 film by David Gordon Green

1993 film directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik

1980 US film directed by Brian De Palma

2013 film directed by Steven Soderbergh

1948 film by Anatole Litvak

1974 film by John Cassavetes

2002 film by Harold Ramis

1936 film by Lambert Hillyer

1988 film by John Carl Buechler

2000 film by Philip Kaufman

Häxan (, The Witch; Heksen , The Witch; English: The Witches; released in the US in 1968 as Witchcraft Through the Ages) is a 1922 Swedish-Danish silent horror essay film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Consisting partly of documentary-style storytelling as well as dramatized narrative sequences, the film purports to chart the historical roots and superstitions surrounding witchcraft, beginning in the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Based partly on Christensen's own study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan proposes that such witch

1982 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

2005 film by John Madden

1982 film directed by Graeme Clifford

1991 film directed by Frank Oz

Nuremberg is a 2025 American psychological thriller historical drama film written, co-produced, and directed by James Vanderbilt. Based on the 2013 book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai, the film follows U.S. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley seeking to carry out an assignment to investigate the personalities and monitor the mental status of Hermann Göring and other high-ranking Nazis in preparation for and during the Nuremberg trials. Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Mark O'Brien, Colin Hanks, Wrenn Schmidt, Lydia Peckham, Richard E. Grant, and Michael Shannon have supporting roles in the film.

1957 film by Nunnally Johnson

2011 film by Jeff Nichols

1985 film directed by Walter Murch

Unsane is a 2018 American psychological thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer. The film stars Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple, Aimee Mullins, and Amy Irving. Matt Damon has a cameo appearance as a detective. The film follows a woman confined to a mental institution after she is pursued by a stalker. The film was shot entirely on the iPhone 7 Plus.

1942 film directed by Sam Wood

1985 film by Norman Jewison

1963 film by Samuel Fuller

1953 film by Luis Buñuel

1972 film directed by George Roy Hill

1992 film by Phil Joanou

1977 film directed by Sidney Lumet

1964 film by Carl Theodor Dreyer

2014 film directed by Bill Pohlad

2006 film by Ryan Murphy

2002 film by Vikram Bhatt

1979 film by David Cronenberg

1946 film by Robert Siodmak

1982 film by Robert Benton

1964 film by Jack Clayton